India: Clean Air / Pollution

As Indian cities hurtle toward rapid urban expansion, often celebrated in terms of GDP growth, infrastructure, and high-rise skylines, a quieter crisis unfolds at the edge of this development: the disappearance of urban wetlands.

India generates an estimated 25,000 to 30,000 tonnes of plastic waste every day, of which a substantial share, approximately 10,556 tonnes daily, remains uncollected and enters landfills or the open environment. To address this, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (“MoEFCC”) has notified a national Extended Producer Responsibility (“EPR”) framework for plastic packaging under the Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016, as amended from time to time.

The Central Pollution Control Board (“CPCB”) has issued guidelines under the Battery Waste Management Rules, 2022 (“BWM Rules”) governing the collection, handling, storage and transportation of waste batteries across the country. The guidelines anchor compliance to the hazardous waste regime, prescribe chemistry-specific storage and transport protocols, and restrict who may operate collection centres, thereby seeking to prevent mishandling and illegal operations in the handling of waste batteries.

The Supreme Court's decision in Vanashakti v. Union of India is a landmark pronouncement in the field of environmental law, particularly in relation to the regulation of building, construction...

The Division Bench comprising Justice Attau Rahman Masoodi and Justice Subhash Vidyarthi of the Allahabad High Court ("HC"), in its judgment dated 17.07.2025...

The India–UK Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement ("CETA"), signed on July 24, 2025, reflects a notable shift in India's treaty architecture by embedding sustainability objectives as a central component of its trade engagement.

The Government of India has accepted the long-standing demand of industry to remove the dual compliance requirement of Environmental Clearance (EC) and Consent to Establish (CTE) for setting up new

One of the gravest environmental issues of our time is air pollution. It has an annual toll on millions of lives across the world.

The case of Fatima vs Union of India raised significant environmental concerns surrounding the issuance of ex post facto environmental clearances.